When I was a kid I didn't like to eat my vegetables. At the time I didn't see a need for them. I used to joke to my mom that I would catch up on eating all my vegetables at our next Thanksgiving dinner which of course was months away. I understand now that my mom wanted me to be healthy and vegetables are good for me. This segment is about eating your vegetables, well mentally. The vegetables that I'll be dishing out to you are for your own good. It's a dose of getting exposed to something that might be new to most of you, even outside of the usual surf culture. It's ok if you don't like it, but like my mom said,"at least give it a try before next Thanksgiving."
I think it is a very good thing that a person can remind others that they have meaning. Vik Muniz did this by incorporating the lives and life styles of trash pickers in Rio de Janiero into his art. The art was sold at auction and he donated the proceeds to the trash pickers, and it changed their lives forever. I feel that the trash pickers may have changed they way Vik Muniz viewed the world and people in general. Everyone has value and can make this world, your world, a better place. Check out the trailer below:
I think it is a very good thing that a person can remind others that they have meaning. Vik Muniz did this by incorporating the lives and life styles of trash pickers in Rio de Janiero into his art. The art was sold at auction and he donated the proceeds to the trash pickers, and it changed their lives forever. I feel that the trash pickers may have changed they way Vik Muniz viewed the world and people in general. Everyone has value and can make this world, your world, a better place. Check out the trailer below:
Uploaded on Jan 11, 2011
"Waste Land" is an award winning documentary by director Lucy Walker - An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
Released on 2010 and premiered in Berlin Film Festival 2010 (Berlinale)
Released on 2010 and premiered in Berlin Film Festival 2010 (Berlinale)
Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT and COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) and co-directors João Jardim and Karen Harley have great access to the entire process and, in the end, offer stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.
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